Poplack, Aaron
Kopec, Kelsey
Johnson, Chelsea
Pacheco, Miguel
Daly, Keane
Cypel, Bret
Maxon, Meagan
Whitcomb, Amanda
Ward, Lauren
2013-04-18T23:47:22Z
2013-04-18T23:47:22Z
2012-06-10
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12846
Submitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: 2012-2013. 25 pages.
The purpose of this study was to monitor the behavior and population counts of
Bombus spp. and Apis mellifera on Vaccinium farms in the Willamette Valley of Oregon.
With global pollinator populations declining there is a concern for the reproduction of
plants that rely on biotic pollination, most notably food crops. Through this study we
obtained a better understanding of the role each genus plays within pollination services.
This research project had two separate studies: first, to monitor behavior through
observing the number of Vaccinium flowers pollinated per minute per bee, also described
as floral handling rate. We observed three Bombus and three Apis along each transect,
following as they moved from flower to flower. The second study was to monitor bee
populations in order to establish a comparison between Apis and Bombus presence.
The Katherine Bisbee II Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation. The McKenzie River Trust.
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Monitoring Bee Pollination Services on Willamette Valley Vaccinium Farms
Pollinators and Vaccinium Report
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Lesh, Adam
2009-05-15T16:43:36Z
2009-05-15T16:43:36Z
2008
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9161
Awarded $1,000 in the 2009 Undergraduate Research Award scholarship competition. 19 p. : (ill.) Paper versions also available for check out or consultation in the University of Oregon's library.
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Mont Sainte-Victoire: The Enduring Motif
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Casas, Mary Ann
2006-03-27T22:59:27Z
2006-03-27T22:59:27Z
2005
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2513
Submitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: 2005. Awarded an honorable mention scholarship. 25 p. Paper versions also available for check out or consultation in the University of Oregon's library under the call number: HD1527.O7 C37 2005.
In the summer of 1969, Lupe Bustos, a part-time disc jockey for a local Spanish-speaking radio program, received a phone call from a group of Mexican-American farm workers with a plea for help. Bustos, who was also a Bureau of Labor employee, had been broadcasting radio communications aimed at local Hispanic migrant workers, urging them to stand up for themselves and speak up about the injustices taking place in the labor camps, an issue that the public had in recent years become increasingly aware of. The caller, an employee at Tankersley’s Spanish-American Berry Farm just outside of the small town of North Plains in Washington County, Oregon, had sneaked off of the labor camp premises to use the nearest pay phone to contact Bustos about the situation in which the workers had found themselves. In addition to complaining about wages and living conditions, these workers felt like “virtual prisoners” of their employer, Ronald Tankersley. A meeting was arranged at the local Catholic Church for the following Sunday, the only day the workers were able and allowed to leave the camp . This meeting would kick-off an arduous legal battle that lasted two years and proved to be a significant event in the lives of all involved, as well as a groundbreaking case in Oregon. It was not the first time issues in the migrant labor world would manage to gain the attention of both the general public and government officials, nor would it be the last.
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Migrant agricultural laborers -- Political activity
Agricultural laborers, Foreign -- Oregon
Migrant agricultural laborers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Oregon
Moreno v. Tankersley : The Migrant Class Action of 1969
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Brezack, Natalie Giles
2014-04-21T21:22:04Z
2014-04-21T21:22:04Z
2013-06
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/17453
Submitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: 2013-2014. 78 pages.
Research by Kuhl, Coffey-Corina, Padden, and Dawson, 2005, demonstrated that
typically developing infants prefer "motherese" speech to a non-speech analog. In contrast,
children with autism spectrum disorder show the reverse preference, and the degree to which this
is true predicts their developmental progress in processing properties of speech streams. I am
investigating possible parallels to these findings in children's processing of human action;
specifically, whether developmental skills in preschool-aged children predict the degree to which
they prefer "motionese" versus a non-action analog (or the reverse), and whether the strength of
their preference predicts the sophistication of their processing of intentional action. Preliminary
results based on participation from forty 2- to 3-year-olds indicate a significant correlation
between executive function skills and degree of preference for motionese versus the non-action
analog. Should these findings be borne out in the full sample, they point to important links
between the development of language and intentional action processing, and they may have
implications for designing interventions for children developing atypically.
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Motionese: Subject to Preference?
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Petersen, Phoebe
2013-04-16T18:33:11Z
2013-04-16T18:33:11Z
2012
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12842
Submitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: 2012-2013. 24 pages
Although not well known, Oregon’s intentional communities date back over one hundred
and fifty years. Oregon communalism reached its peak in the 1970s when there was a
huge growth in lesbian intentional communities in Southern Oregon. These communities
developed out of the back-to-the-land movement and the women’s movement. However,
besides thinking about communalism and women’s liberation, the women were also
harkening back to a long-held component of American cultural mythology: the pastoral
ideal. Pastoral idealism, or the idea that a simple, egalitarian, and spiritually pure life is
possible in the countryside, has been a driving force in American writing and cultural
movements. Although the members of intentional communities attempted to isolate
themselves from patriarchal American culture, their writings demonstrate continued
engagement with pastoral idealism. In doing so, these women inextricably linked
themselves to American culture and must be seen as part of America’s history of
idealism, communalism and activism.
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No Man’s Land: A Herstory of Lesbian Intentional Communities in Southern Oregon as a Manifestation of the Pastoral Dream
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Stamp, Adam Michel
2007-06-28T17:38:40Z
2007-06-28T17:38:40Z
2006
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/4311
Submitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: 2007. Awarded an honorable mention scholarship. 20 p. : col. ill. Paper versions also available for check out or consultation in the University of Oregon's library under the call number: N6537.R27 S53 2006.
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Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925- -- Criticism and interpretation
Existentialism in art
Nothing (Philosophy)
Nothingness Materialized: Existentialism in the Context of Reality as Revealed in the Early Oeuvre of Robert Rauschenberg
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Bigalke, Brittany
Kimmy, Ertel
Liston, Matthew
Park, Alex
Russell, Alexandria
Silva, Matt
2011-03-16T21:00:32Z
2011-03-16T21:00:32Z
2011-03-16T21:00:32Z
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11041
Submitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: 2010-2011. 63 p.
The prevention of fire regimes, in combination with increasing urbanization, has led to a drastic decline in woodland oak habitats over the past 150 years in the Pacific Northwest. Currently, less than 2% of pre-European settlement oak habitat remains in the Southern Willamette Valley. Oak habitats art: home to a wide: range of rare plants and animals. As a result, the City of Eugene made conserving oak habitats one of their top priorities. As members of the Ridgeline Oaks Team, we collected data within these native oak habitats to help the City of Eugene implement a future management plan and protocol. We compared the accuracy of previous habitat delineations to the data we collected in the field and found that the former habitat delineations were only 55% accurate. We collected baseline data as well as data on heritage trees, which are mature trees that are important for their eco10gical and historical value. We also modified the protocol to adapt to the conditions in the field and improve efficiency.
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Oak -- Habitat -- Conservation -- Oregon -- Eugene
Oak Habitat Mapping and Monitoring in the Southern Eugene Ridgeline
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Bacon, Richard
2006-03-27T15:56:50Z
2006-03-27T15:56:50Z
2005
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2505
Submitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: 2005. Awarded an honorable mention scholarship. 24 p. Paper versions also available for check out or consultation in the University of Oregon's library under the call number: KFO2635.B4 B33 2005.
In 1971, the Oregon legislature, reflecting the state’s growing environmental consciousness, passed the Minimum Deposit Act, more commonly known as the “Bottle Bill.” The bill sought to combat litter by eliminating the non-returnable beverage container. It also implemented a deposit on other types of containers. Controversy engulfed the act from its creation. The bottling industry, fearing reduced sales and increased production costs, mobilized against the bill. Labor organizations also opposed it, fearing that jobs in container manufacturing would be lost. Supermarkets worried it would cause overcrowding in their facilities. They argued that they would not be able to maintain an organized and sanitary environment within their stores. Yet, despite all this opposition, the bill was passed because of overwhelming public support. Was the legislature right to pass the bill? In other words, did the bill’s benefits outweigh its costs? Despite arguments to the contrary, it is evident that the Bottle Bill had a beneficial effect on the state’s environment and was, in the words of Governor Tom McCall, “a rip-roaring success.”
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Deposit-refund systems -- Law and legislation -- United States -- States
Deposit-refund systems -- Oregon
Beverage containers -- Recycling -- Law and legislation -- Oregon
Oregon’s Bottle Bill: A Battle between Conservation and Convenience
Article

Kurushima, David
2006-04-05T21:39:16Z
2006-04-05T21:39:16Z
2006-01
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2550
Submitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: 2005. Awarded a first-place scholarship.
27 p. Paper versions also available for check out or consultation in the University of Oregon's library under the call number: GV1040.5.K87 2006. (Title page incorrectly lists date as January 2005.)
Bicycle culture and bicycle advocacy, as a social and environmental movement, are considerably dynamic forces in Oregon today; yet, to the astonishment of many Oregonians, the history of bicycling and bicycle culture in the state dates back to well over a 120 years. In the 1890’s, before the proliferation of the automobile and the subsequent development of related environmental, economic and social concerns, the bicycle enjoyed a brief golden age in Oregon as it did across the U.S. Although the bicycle’s Belle Epoch was most evident in the heavily urbanized cities and towns of the north eastern United States, the bicycle frenzy that swept the country in the late 19th century did not by any means pass unobserved by Oregonians. By the mid 1890’s a nascent yet considerably extensive bicycle culture had taken root in the state. Unsurprisingly, many of the characteristics and trends that had come to define this early bicycle culture in other parts of the U.S. were consciously and, in many cases, inevitably replicated in Oregon. As they had in more urbanized states, such as Massachusetts and New York, newly formed cycling clubs and wheelmen associations—overwhelming composed of well-to-do white males—became the driving forces behind Oregon’s early bicycle movement. Although these groups were fairly exclusive organizations, they came to define a cohesive bicycle culture and became the nearly forgotten symbols of a brief yet intriguing period in the state’s history.
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Oregon's wheelmen : Oregon bicycle culture and advocacy during the golden age of the wheel (1885-1900)
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Ehrenkranz, Lacey
2005-03-02T21:14:41Z
2005-03-02T21:14:41Z
2004
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/514
Submitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: 2004. Awarded an honorable mention scholarship.
17 p. Paper versions also available for check out or consultation in the University of Oregon's library under the call number: ND623.T7 E37 2004.
During the mid sixteenth century Titian completed six canvases for Philip II which represent themes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Commonly referred to as the poesie, the series is heralded as a tour de force for its portrayal of female nudes. Each of the paintings illustrates an Ovidian myth pertaining to affairs of the Gods. Titian selected classical legends with overtly sexual overtones that would stimulate more than just the King’s intellect. Titian modified Ovid’s narrative so they were more enticing to the contemporary mind. This essay strives to prove that Titian’s deviations reflect the Renaissance perspective on relationships between the sexes, specifically the eroticism of the dominant male over the passive female.
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Ovid Transformed : The Dynamics of Sexual Positioning in Titian's Poesie
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Poplack, Aaron
Kopec, Kelsey
Johnson, Chelsea
Pacheco, Miguel
Daly, Keane
Cypel, Bret
Maxon, Meagan
Whitcomb, Amanda
Ward, Lauren
2013-04-18T00:24:43Z
2013-04-18T00:24:43Z
2012-06-10
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12845
Submitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: 2012-2013. 41 pages.
The Sustainable Farms Team, as a part of the University of Oregon’s Environmental Leadership Program (ELP), created this Pollinator Conservation Plan to provide the Berggren Demonstration Farm with a comprehensive guide to managing its property for pollinators. Its intent is to direct the Berggren Demonstration Farm (Demo Farm) in creating and implementing bee friendly habitat and farm management practices to promote increased pollination services. The plan includes management techniques and methods to conserve pollinators by providing recommendations for both nesting habitat and a food source.
The Katherine Bisbee II Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation. The McKenzie River Trust.
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Pollinator Conservation Plan for the Berggren Demonstration Farm
ELP Sustainable Farms Pollinator Conservation Plan
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Murphy, John Paul
2006-03-27T14:55:33Z
2006-03-27T14:55:33Z
2005
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2504
Submitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: 2005. Awarded a first-place scholarship. 18 p. Paper versions also available for check out or consultation in the University of Oregon's library, under the call number: ND623.P83 M87 2005. Images removed from digital file.
The Order of the Society Jesus was among the foremost creators and commissioners of Counter-Reformation Baroque art. Founded in 1534 by St. Ignatius of Loyola, the Jesuits came to be regarded as one of the most potent forces of the Counter-Reformation, due at least in part to the order’s high visibility through their worldwide network of building projects. Part of art history’s continuing fascination with the Jesuits involves the controversial search for a “Jesuit Style” of art, an approach to image production that is immediately identifiable as Jesuitical. Though a thorough discussion of the Jesuit style is outside the limits of this paper, the Jesuit worldview (including the Jesuit perception of the role of art) is central to interpreting how artists were employed in constructing Jesuit self-identity. Nowhere is this process of identity-construction more apparent than in The Church of St. Ignatius in Rome, built to celebrate both Ignatius and the active ministry of his order throughout the globe.
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Pozzo, Andrea, 1642-1709
Jesuit art -- Italy -- Rome
Church decoration and ornament -- Italy -- Rome
Art, Baroque -- Italy -- Rome
Pozzo’s Perspective: Visual Hagiography in the Church of St. Ignatius, Rome
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Rosman, John
Rutledge, Eric
2009-05-20T16:44:33Z
2009-05-20T16:44:33Z
2008
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9224
Awarded $1,000 in the 2009 Undergraduate Research Award scholarship competition. 10:05 minute-video in meta files. Video file also available for check out or consultation in the University of Oregon's library.
"Re-creation" of Ed's Coed, piecing together the old film and the stills from Special Collections against the current backdrop of campus. Executive producer: Jon Palfreman. Narrated by Al Stavitsky.
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Ed's Co-ed (Motion picture)
Silent films
Reinventing Ed's Coed
Video

Ebeling, Elan
2012-04-17T00:07:16Z
2012-04-17T00:07:16Z
2011
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12148
Submitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: 2011-2012. 158 p.
The standard narrative on public health posits a transition in most American cities during the final third of the nineteenth century from politicized, ad hoc, and sanitation-based responses to professionalized, institutionalized, and bacteriological-based public health. While that transition certainly did take place, it did not take place smoothly or instantaneously, and many American cities went through periods of adjustment that few scholars have addressed. This essay examines the realities of how public health functioned on the ground during this formative and transitional era by looking at the town of Wheeling, West Virginia during the decade of the 1880s.
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The Tumultuous Nature of American Public Health at the Grassroots Level During a Transitional Decade: Wheeling, West Virginia, 1880-1890
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Grosjean, Shelley
2011-03-21T21:46:38Z
2011-03-21T21:46:38Z
2011-03-21
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11043
Submitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: 2010-11. 40 p.
This paper is based on primary source historical research in several collections in the Knight Library at the University of Oregon, including the SOCLAP Collection, the Tee Corinne Papers and the Ruth Mountaingrove Collection, which all contain documentation about the formation of lesbian separatist intentional communities in southern Oregon in the 1970’s. These communities were built from the ground up, by women who were going “back to the land” in order to create rural female centered lives. While predominantly raised in traditionally gendered households, the women who populated these lands transcended the traditional roles of women and through skill sharing and creativity were able to build and maintain their new country lives. Broadly, their experience in the isolated hills of southern Oregon is connected to the social radicalism of the 1960’s and 1970’s. It is a prime example of the intersection of several of these movements, including the back to the land movement, the emerging environmental movement, the women’s liberation movement and the gay liberation movement of the 1970’s.
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Lesbian separatists
Utopian communities
Back-to-the-land movement
WomanShare Collective
Lesbian community -- Oregon
A "Womyn's" Work is Never Done: The Gendered Division of Labor and the Creation of Southern Oregon Lesbian Separatist Communities
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